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(No Model.) v G. N. PHELPS. METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR EXTRAGTING OLEAGINOUS AND SOLUBLE MATTER FROM OTHER BODIES.

No. 288,259. A Patented Nov. 13, 1883 N. PETEIIS. ihnloLikhognpkxzr. Waikingkm. u. c

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PATENT FFICE.

enonen a. rirnnrs, on BROOKLYN, new YORK, ASSIGNOR on ONE-HALF TO DAXIEL WADSWQRTH, or SAME PLACE.

METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR EXTRACTING GLEAGlNOUS AND SOLUBLE MATTER FROM OTHER BODIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,259, dated November 13, 1883.

Application filed June 16, 18843. (N model.) I

f0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GnoRc-n N. PHELPS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Method of and Means for Extracting Oleaginous and Soluble Matter from other Bodies, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawmgs.

The object of my invention is to furnish an improved apparatus and means for extracting oleaginous matter or removing soluble matter 1 5 from other bodies by means of proper solvents applied inthe manner described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a cross-section thronghKK. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan of one of the buckets or treating-boxes.

' The same letters refer to the same parts in each figure.

G is a closed case, containing the series of buckets AA A, attached to the endless chain or link belt carried around the sprocketwheels S S, and driven from shaft N by any suitable means. The motion may be continuous, or in this instance in an intermittent manner from shaft E=by worm and worm-wheel and friction clutch. (Not shown.)

a The buckets in continuous order on the links contain in the bottom (seelliig. 3) apertures, which are covered with wire'cloth or other pervious material which will permit the free 5 new of the solvent.

'Within the case 0, and extending horizontally between the sprocket-wheels S S", is a smooth bed, 1, upon which the buckets slide as they are moved along by the rotation of the 40 sprocketwheels. The upper surface of the bed may be covered with metal or channeled,

to facilitate the passage of the solvent as it filters from the bucket-s to the pipes H H, 8m.

Outside of case 0, and below the bottoms of the buckets A A, the, are a series of pumps,

P P, &c., each pump provided with asuctionpipe, H H, 850., which bringsto itthe solvent after it passes through the buckets. The

discharge-pipes G G, 830., are bent over at the top, so that each pump discharges into the left in the direction of the arrow.

next bucket of the series. The last pump is provided with a pipe, L, conveying the saturated solvent to a still or other apparatus for final or further treatment. The pumps are driven from shaft E by eccentrics X.

The case 0 is provided with ahopper, J, for introducing the material to be operated on, and the spent material is dumped into the hopper M.' The pipe F conducts the solvent to the buckets.

The buckets are provided with lips 13 B, 850., to prevent the solvent from dripping down between them as it escapes from the in let-pipe F or the pumps.

The action of this apparatus is as follows: The sprocket-wheels S S are rotated from right to The hopper J is opened, and the material, fed from a proper measuring device, falls into the buckcts as theysuccessively pass under it. When the filled bucket A reaches the point immedi ately under the pipe F, the solvent is admitted. This is drawn by the pump P, connected therewith, and delivered through pipe G into bucket A. The second pump delivers the solvent to the-third bucket, and so on until the last pump discharges it saturated t0 the still by pipe L. While the material is being thus treated the buckets are given an intermittent motion, so as to enable the solvent to act completely and dissolve all the soluble matter, and pass from the apparatus as highly saturated as possible, and thus secure the greatest economy in distilling. By making any one of the pipes G G, &c., the final discharge-pipe, the number of buckets through which the solvent passes may be regulated to suit the circumstances. As the'buckets pass over the wheel S they are inverted and the spent material is spilled out into the dischargehopper M. It will thus beseen thatthe action of this apparatus is automatic, and that it requires little care or attention.

I am aware of Patents No. 151,050, to Geo.

N. Phelps, and No. 27 5,989, to F. X. Byerley, 9

1. The continuous or endless train of filter ofv pumps by which the solvent after passing 2o buckets, substantially as described. through one bucket is pumped into the second 2. A continuous or endless train of filterof the series, and so on, substantially as debuckets, in combination with an endless chain scribed. 5' and sprocket-wheels, substantially as de- 6. The herein-deseribed method of extractscribed. ing soluble matter by treating it to a solvent 25 3. The series of filter-buckets A A, &c., in ina train of individual filters moving upon a p combination with the bedIand suitable means horizontal bed, said filters carrying the matefor moving them thereon, substantially as derial in one direction,while the solvent passes [O scribed. continuously through the filters in the oppo- 4. A train of filter-buckets adapted to move 1 site direction, substantially as described. 0

over a smooth bed, in combination with pumps In testimony whereof I affix my signature and pipes adapted to cause the solvent to flow in presence of two witnesses this 14th day of continuously through said filters, substantially June, 1883. [5 as described. GEORGE N. PHELPS.

5. In an apparatus for treating soluble material, the combination of a series of fi1ter-' \Vitnesses: buckets, a bed upon which they move, suit- DANIEL WVADswoRTH,

able means for moving said filters, and a series J. L. OoNNELLY. 

